Identifying common types of spider webs can help you understand if you're hosting a harmless and handy manager of pests or an ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room ...

If you have been on edge dodging spider webs around your home, you are not the only one. Georgia and South Carolina are ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

Once a spider web has been abandoned, it will start to gather dust and dirt, which is what we’ve come to recognize as a ...

DEAR JOAN: I have an unusual spiderweb in my yard and haven’t found any information online on how to identify the spider. I am hoping you can give me some tips on how to find out, as I surely don’t ...

SYDNEY — Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different ...

Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence Josh Newton at Curtin University in Western Australia and his colleagues have found that spider webs capture the DNA of creatures ...

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